I do embrace change and could not imagine life without a lot of the latest technological developments (like the internet - back in the days when you had some trivial thing you couldn't remember but it was driving you nuts so you had to suffer until you remembered - now just search online).
DH and I keep in touch during the day with IM (though I don't do cell phone texting).
But I heard two developments today that depressed me. The first was that my local newspaper which I have read for 25 years is going up for sale. If it is not sold in 4-6 months, it will be shut down. I do get a lot of news from the Internet, but the newspaper has been my breakfast companion for a long time. There is an intimacy and leisure about flipping through the pages, glancing at articles or reading them in depth. TV news never gives me enough depth.
The second was news about upheaval in the publishing business. Books are going to have to go electronic because the number of people wanting paper books is decreasing and books are too expensive to produce. But like the newspaper, there is something comforting and intimate in the way I can curl up with a book, savoring the words on pages. A flat panel with lighted words isn't the same and actually fatigues me.
So I'm resisting coming into the 21st century.
DH and I keep in touch during the day with IM (though I don't do cell phone texting).
But I heard two developments today that depressed me. The first was that my local newspaper which I have read for 25 years is going up for sale. If it is not sold in 4-6 months, it will be shut down. I do get a lot of news from the Internet, but the newspaper has been my breakfast companion for a long time. There is an intimacy and leisure about flipping through the pages, glancing at articles or reading them in depth. TV news never gives me enough depth.
The second was news about upheaval in the publishing business. Books are going to have to go electronic because the number of people wanting paper books is decreasing and books are too expensive to produce. But like the newspaper, there is something comforting and intimate in the way I can curl up with a book, savoring the words on pages. A flat panel with lighted words isn't the same and actually fatigues me.
So I'm resisting coming into the 21st century.